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Social discontent
Moldova nowadays is experiencing a difficult economic situation, which puts the population into obvious condition of poverty. Inner causes of such life of the country are connected with the collapse of the former Soviet Union and with the lack of consecutive actions directed to the economical development of the region. This, together with outer causes, mainly connected with the political development of all Europe which will make Moldova a new dividing border between United Europe and Eastern Europe in 2007, makes one understand the state of uncertainty experienced by Moldavian people.
Recent statistics has revealed that 50% of today’s population lives under subsistence level, 38% are in unstable condition, 10% live well and do not face problems, and 2% are represented by the rich men. To these figures it is necessary to add mass exodus which has enveloped 25% of the population that immigrated to other countries, mainly European ones, either legally or illegally.
As it has been estimated emigration from the country makes up about 10000 Moldavian citizens a month.
Social discontent is a reality, which the population reveals through a number of alarming signals, such as distrust of the politics, in the whole and to the state administration in particular; the conviction that the only thing that works is corruption on all levels; fear that the present-day country does not have future; the assurance that it is only emigration that can solve the problems, in other words, there is a generally accepted opinion that one should leave Moldova, by only means.
 The problems grow with the growth of uncertainty and worry for the future, and also when people get information about the prosperity of their compatriots abroad, which is not always true, who brag about their money and wealth, without realizing its really insignificant amount.
Social process in Moldova takes the course which is peculiar to a poor, but economically developing countries, where the profits are distributed unfairly, thus the poor get poorer, while the rich get richer. Economical benefits, gained from money transfers, that is, the money which Moldavian citizens living abroad send periodically to their families, do not give prosperity to everybody, but just to few people. Most often this money is spent for paying the debts accumulated in the past or for paying taxes, buying habitation or starting some minor business, that is why global economical planning which would mean development is out of the question.
To all these factors can be added: high level of distrust to banking system, uncertainty in confirmation of law in the sphere of investment, great influence of corruption.
Foreign investments are indecisive and too caution, they are sometimes intemperate in the use of cheap working force and they do not promote real economical development. There are some positive aspects in foreign investments, as far as a lot of people whose remuneration is higher than in the local market are involved; Moldova gets know how, that is, technical, management and marketing knowledge with the creation of the accompanying economical activity. Experts in the field of local development, based on the use of cheap working force included, represent the first stage of development, adopted by Asian countries, and these countries later managed to use aggressive export policy. If Moldavian economical policy made this system a little more aggressive, economic-social conditions of the territory would be different.
Thus, a talk about social discontent means that there are problems for which people pay every day by their lives, living in conditions of real poverty, from which it is difficult to escape if you do not emigrate, but to be able to emigrate, you need to have physical strength and financial resources.
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